Label-holder



(No Model.)

B. A. CANNON.

LABEL HOLDER.

Patented Oct. 6, 1885.

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EDWVARD A. CANNON, OF PENSAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

LABEL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,763, dated October 6,1885.

Application filed January 26, 1885. Serial No. 153,958.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD A. CANNON, of Pensaukee, Oconto county, XVisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Label-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a a new and improved label-holder for holding labels on letter boxes, pigeon'holes, files, &c., in such a manner that the label can easily be removed, and at the same time cannot drop off or become detached.

The invent-ion consists in the combination, with brackets having upwardly-projecting prongs, of pivoted latches above tongues on the ends of a label-holding case.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a face view of my improved label-holder. 2 is a face view of a modifioation. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view of one end of the same on the line :0 r, Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is an end view, and Fig. 5 is a crosssectional view, of the label-holding case shown in Fig. 2.

The longitudinal metal case A is provided with one or more slots, B, in the front, or a slot, B, in the front and back, and a longitudinal upright partition, 0.

Tickets or labels I, bearing numbers or names, are slipped into the case or holder H through end slits, the names or numbers appearing in the slots.

In the construction shown in Fig. 1 the number appears in the small slot and the name in the large slot, and this holder is to (N0 model.)

be used on letter-boxes, to hold the number and name labels.

In the construction shown in Figs. 2 and 5 the names only appear, only one on each side of the holder, thus adapting the holder to be reversed, and this holder is especially adapted for use on railway mail-cars, where the names must be changed every time the train runs over the route in a different direction.

The holder is held at each end in a bracket, D, secured on the front end edges of the box or pigeon hole. The bracket is provided with an upwardly-projecting prong, E, on its outer or front edge, forming a pocket, F, for receiving a flat tenon or tongue, G, on each end of the holder.

On the front of each bracket D a latch, H, is pivoted at the top, the lower end of the latch being adapted to rest on the upper end of the prong E and on the top edge of the tongue G, and thus lock the tongue in place in the bracket. The latches swing down automatically, and thus hold the holder in place until they are raised. The holder can be placed and secured in the brackets very easily or re moved from the same.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination, with two brackets, D, having tongues E and latches H, of the slotted holder A, having tenons or tongues G on the ends, substantially as herein shown and described.

EDWVARD A. CANNON.

Witnesses MILTON MoNEEL, HoLLIs PARTLOW. 

